Vista Tutorial - Video error in Media Center

I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how DVD's
are playing.

When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get a
"Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.

Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....

I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online content
should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!

What is wrong here?

And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

do you have windows ultimate/ home premium cause you should be able to play
dvds in those skus.Please let us know.thanks

"Oceanwatcher" wrote:

> I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how DVD's
> are playing.
>
> When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get a
> "Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
> correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.
>
> Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....
>
> I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online content
> should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!
>
> What is wrong here?
>
> And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

Vista has a built in MPEG2 Decoder for DVDs.
What graphics card and driver are you using and how much memory on the
graphics card?

"Oceanwatcher" <Oceanwatcher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:399CFA8C-6306-49DB-B67A-492B0C499BCF@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how
> DVD's
> are playing.
>
> When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get
> a
> "Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
> correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.
>
> Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....
>
> I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online
> content
> should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!
>
> What is wrong here?
>
> And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

I did not even realise that you could download different versions of RC1?
Mine is has "Ultimate" attached to its name :-)

I have a feeling it is lacking the right driver for the graphics card. It is
an on-board card with SiS chipset.

Do you know where I can find drivers for Vista or do you know a grphics card
(AGP) that definitely is supported?

--

Regards,

Oceanwatcher


"santosh hegde" wrote:

> do you have windows ultimate/ home premium cause you should be able to play
> dvds in those skus.Please let us know.thanks
>
> "Oceanwatcher" wrote:
>
> > I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> > Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how DVD's
> > are playing.
> >
> > When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get a
> > "Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
> > correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.
> >
> > Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....
> >
> > I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online content
> > should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!
> >
> > What is wrong here?
> >
> > And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

Check teh SIS Website to see if your specific chipset is supported my MCE
since only the most recently releassed of their chipsets meet requirements
susch as Dx9 support.

"Oceanwatcher" <Oceanwatcher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1BEAE402-8258-4466-A1FB-F904DF1BC093@microsoft.com...
>I did not even realise that you could download different versions of RC1?
> Mine is has "Ultimate" attached to its name :-)
>
> I have a feeling it is lacking the right driver for the graphics card. It
> is
> an on-board card with SiS chipset.
>
> Do you know where I can find drivers for Vista or do you know a grphics
> card
> (AGP) that definitely is supported?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Oceanwatcher
>
>
> "santosh hegde" wrote:
>
>> do you have windows ultimate/ home premium cause you should be able to
>> play
>> dvds in those skus.Please let us know.thanks
>>
>> "Oceanwatcher" wrote:
>>
>> > I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online
>> > content.
>> > Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how
>> > DVD's
>> > are playing.
>> >
>> > When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I
>> > get a
>> > "Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or
>> > working
>> > correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.
>> >
>> > Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....
>> >
>> > I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online
>> > content
>> > should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!
>> >
>> > What is wrong here?
>> >
>> > And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

JW,

I have been doing other things lately and had no time to check the answer
from you. But during that period of time, I got another graphics card based
on nVidia chips.

This solved the problems and the errormessages regarding this part are gone.
So I guess you were right in your assumptions that the graphics card was the
problem.

To anyone else reading this thread: Go with a nVidia based graphics card for
now. It will most likely be supported. Problem solved!

Thank you very much for all help and suggestions.
--

Regards,

Oceanwatcher


"JW" wrote:

> Vista has a built in MPEG2 Decoder for DVDs.
> What graphics card and driver are you using and how much memory on the
> graphics card?
>
> "Oceanwatcher" <Oceanwatcher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:399CFA8C-6306-49DB-B67A-492B0C499BCF@microsoft.com...
> >I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> > Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how
> > DVD's
> > are playing.
> >
> > When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get
> > a
> > "Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
> > correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.
> >
> > Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....
> >
> > I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online
> > content
> > should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!
> >
> > What is wrong here?
> >
> > And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.
>